The story of Chang'e Flying to the Moon

Today's host:

Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Xinyu. My English name is Cindy. I'm in Class Three, Grade Six. Today, I'm going to tell you a story about Chang'e Flying to the Moon.

      大家好，我叫陈馨玉。我的英文名字叫Cindy。我在六3班。今天我为大家讲述《嫦娥奔月》的故事。

Long long ago, ten suns appeared in the sky. They looked like ten fireballs which scorched the entire earth.There was a sharpshooter named Hou Yi who attempted to shoot down the excess suns.

Tips:

1、scorch 烧焦

2、entire 整个

3、sharpshooter 神射手            

4、excess 多余的

Hou Yi shot down nine suns at one time and left the last one.He commanded that the sun should rise and fall on time each day to benefit the people.

Tips:

1、command 命令

2、benefit 有益于

Because of his contribution in shooting down the suns and saving the world, the Queen Wang Mu gave Hou Yi a magic pill which could make him be a god and became immortal.

Tips:

1、contribution 贡献          

2、immortal 长生不老的

Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife Chang'e alone . So, he gave the elixir to her and asked her to keep it.This scene was seen by an evil-minded man whose name was Pang Meng.

Tips:

1、reluctant 不情愿的

2、elixir 灵丹妙药

3、evil-minded 恶毒的 

After Hou Yi became famous, many people came to learn the archery from him. Pang Meng was one of them.

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1、archery 箭术

One day, Hou Yi went out for hunting with his disciples, leaving Chang'e at home alone. Pang Meng pretended to be ill and did not go with him.

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1、disciple 学徒

2、pretend 假装 

After Hou Yi left, Pang Meng broke into Hou Yi's home with sword and forced Chang'e to give him the pill. Chang'e worried about that Pang Meng would bring disasters to human being after he got the magic, so she swallowed the pill.

Tips:

1、sword 刀、剑

2、disaster 灾难

3、human being 人类

4、swallow 吞下

After swallowing the pill, Chang'e felt that her body became very light immediately and she flew to the heaven.

Tips:

1、immediately 立刻

2、heaven 天堂

Chang'e worried about Hou Yi .So she only flew to the Moon which was the nearest to the Earth, and became the moon goddess.

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1、moon goddess 月宫仙子

Chang'e was accompanied by a jade rabbit on the Moon every day.She missed her husband very much.So did her husband Hou Yi. He also wanted to meet Chang'e again.

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1、accompany 陪伴

2、jade rabbit 玉兔

A god taught Hou Yi a method: using flour to make a cake which looked like the full moon on August 15th, and placing it on the northwest of the house, then calling Chang'e's name, after that, Chang'e would come back and reunite with him.

Tips:

1、method 方法

2、flour 面粉

3、northwest 西北

4、reunite 团聚

Hou Yi made many cakes according to the god's method on August 15th. And Chang'e really came back from the Moon.Now we call these round flour-made cakes “moon cakes” and pass it on from generation to generation.

Tips:

1、according to 根据、按照

2、generation 一代

编辑：刘飞

审核：姚莹 牛蕊

策划：孙然